Friday, May 23, 2014

May 4th I took my daughter out for a sail, had to give her some tiller time. We motored out to LA Light sailed out a ways then paralleled the breakwater to Long Beach the wind was light and shifty so we ended up motor sailing to the Long Beach harbor and went in at Queens Gate. We went along side the Queen Mary and then into Shoreline Marina for some fuel.

We went out on May 10th for a sail but with winds blowing 25-30 knots and gusts in the 40's it was too much to keep going even with a reefed main so we turned around and came back to our safe slip.
Finally had the boat out on April 26 for an actual sail, we went out LA Light and headed about a mile out made a few tacks then sailed back in. The boat performed well considering the bottom hasn't been cleaned in a year, the previous motoring probably knocked off allot of growth The wind was around 10 to 12 knots and we were broad reaching around 6 knots.